"Therefore...love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you. For those who are near you are far, you say, and that shows it is beginning to grow wide about you. And when what is near you is far, then your distance is already among the stars and very large..." Rilke

"Beauty without the beloved is like a sword through the heart." Rossetti

I’m really good at

I'm really good at teaching, organizing, singing, accounting. Sort of an odd list....

The first things people usually notice about me

Physically, my eyes. Also, people often comment that they feel comfortable with me very quickly.